{"id":3597,"date":"2014-04-10T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T16:12:15","slug":"heartbleed-protect-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/heartbleed-protect-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbleed: Protect Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3596\" src=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heartbleed-247x300.png\" alt=\"heartbleed\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heartbleed-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heartbleed-300x363.png 300w, https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/heartbleed.png 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>If you typically ignore computer bug warnings and alerts this is one you should take seriously. It is called the Heartbleed bug and it is a hole in the secure connection between your computer and internet servers that you often query for information. Prior to the bug detection experts estimated that it affected more than 66% of secure connections over the internet (connections between your computer and urls beginning with https:\/\/). These sites include many banking and merchant websites as indicated in this NBC news report below.<br \/>\n<script id=\"metamorph-2458-start\" type=\"text\/x-placeholder\"><\/script><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=nn_05pwi_net_140409\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><script id=\"metamorph-2458-end\" type=\"text\/x-placeholder\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So what do you need to do?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Check all secure websites (https:\/\/) to see if your connection will be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug. Many websites with secure servers will post a message indicating that they are not or no longer vulnerable. If you cannot find that information, you may use <a title=\"Heartbleed test\" href=\"https:\/\/filippo.io\/Heartbleed\/#paypal.com\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a> to check.<\/li>\n<li>Once you have verified that your connection will not be vulnerable, change your password. If the connection is not secure, do not use it until it is secure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you typically ignore computer bug warnings and alerts this is one you should take seriously. It is called the Heartbleed bug and it is a hole in the secure connection between your computer and internet servers that you often query for information. Prior to the bug detection experts estimated that it affected more than &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/heartbleed-protect-your-data\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heartbleed: Protect Your Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[577,578],"class_list":{"0":"post-3597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles","7":"category-consumer","8":"tag-computer-security","9":"tag-secure-connection","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clydelettsome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}